“Glad you’re better today, Michelle–or were you just hungover, wink, wink, nudge , nudge.”
“I swapped,” Michelle replies tartly. “Came in on the Fourth, got a lot done with no one else here. Stayed home yesterday, slept in after everyone in a hundred-mile radius finally stopped setting off mortars at 3 a.m.”
“So you worked on the Fourth of July.”
“Independence Day is too exhausting for a school night.”
Every week Girlie on the Edge hosts the Six Sentence Stories flash fiction linkup and blog hop. This week’s cue was “exhaust.” Fun sixes from other writers are at the link. Join us! It’s fun!
99 Monkeys 
It would be really difficult to get any sleep if the celebrating went on until 3 a.m. So glad people were not setting off firecrackers into the wee hours of the morning here.
Good SSS.
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I hate fireworks! They died out about 1 AM here
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This so made me smile. If I could have worked the 4th and had the 5th off, I’d have been happy lol. Fireworks were still going off at midnight!
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I live on the lake and fireworks started the first of last week and have continued. It is that way every year so thankfully my animals are used to it.
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Agreed! I often enjoy taking a holiday from holidays. But some are hard to escape.
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“…everyone in a hundred-mile radius finally stopped setting off mortars at 3 a.m.”
Great line.
(Want to locate the scotts in your neighborhood? Follow the sound of explosions. Or the towering inferno of a barbecue grill trying to burn off a gallon of starter fluid. Will also, not-coincidently be the house that requires one to wear sunglasses as you drive by it on Christmas Eve.)
lol fun Six
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